Re: How to hide .journal file

From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>

To: Mindaugas Riauba <mind bi lt>

Cc: ext3-users redhat com

Subject: Re: How to hide .journal file

Date: 29 Nov 2002 15:05:28 +0000

On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 08:55, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
> Maybe it's already FAQ but how to hide .journal file
> on rootfs? I upgraded filesystems on one of my servers
> from ext2 to ext3 and everything went smoothly.
> I'd like to avoid booting from alternative media because
> server is in production. FS update done together with
> server's kernel update.
You can't shift the .journal file out of the way on a mounted
filesystem, so if it's the root filesystem that you're worried about,
you will _have_ to boot off another media (eg. rescue CD) in order to
hide that .journal. Once you've done that, though, it's easy --- e2fsck
will do it automatically in current e2fsprogs.
Cheers,
Stephen